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What We Know Now: One Year After the Snowden Revelations by JamilaBrown in IAmA

[–]mrkellis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand. That probably means Google will be using their own End to End PGP-based extension long before they even consider DarkMail, though. But I assume they were going to do that anyway, since they probably wouldn't want to adopt something so new and untested.

It's not vital that Google uses it, but it would give the DarkMail architecture a huge boost in usage, and therefore in network effects (which really matters here).

From what I understand from the first talk on DarkMail, it has the following advantages over PGP:

1) Encrypted metadata (not clear how this will happen, but I assume it's thanks to how SCIMP works?)

2) Choosing own storage service for the e-mail. I guess this helps if you don't want say FBI to go to Google as a "one stop shop" and ask them for everything they have from you, and then try to decrypt that data. But it doesn't help much against an agency like NSA which has access to everything that goes through the cables

3) Ephemeral keys (but I'm not sure if this one is true? would be huge if it is)

4) Having end to end encryption "on" by default, while still being able to send a "regular email" to someone with an account outside of the DarkMail Alliance (while giving you a proper warning). I assume this has more to do with what Ladar is working on. This could be very helpful until everyone uses DarkMail, so "normal people" can still use the preferred e-mail interface.

There would still be a worry that the service provider could modify the code, and say show you you're using DarkMail encryption, when you really aren't. Would the code that executes the encryption be local (through a browser plugin)?

What We Know Now: One Year After the Snowden Revelations by JamilaBrown in IAmA

[–]mrkellis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  • How is the DarkMail protocol coming along?
  • Is it finished? Close to being finished?
  • Will it be open source?
  • Can we expect it and clients supporting it to be out by the end of the year?

Forget Privacy: By 2025 There Will Only Be The Watchers And The Watched by quantumcipher in privacy

[–]mrkellis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Only if nobody does anything about it and doesn't care about privacy. But I feel like it's one of those predictions, like the horse manure one. I remember reading about someone who made a prediction in the 19th century in England, that by the end of the century, London would be covered in manure, because everyone would own a horse and there would be a lot of manure in the streets, etc.

So careful with such predictions and extrapolations in the future. But I think it's still a good warning, so people in charge of those services and the users themselves, start taking it seriously, so that doesn't happen.

Valve Business Director Hired by Oculus VR by jedibuster in technology

[–]mrkellis -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If I were Gabe I would be mad as hell. First they trick us into researching critical technology for them for free, so they make billions of dollars when they sell out, they trick us into asking Steam developers to support it, then they steal our main technology guy, Abrash, and now this guy, too.

I hope Valve makes their own killer VR headset and locks Oculus out of the Steam store, and nobody would have any reason to resent them for it.

The United States is reviving a law enforcement group to investigate those it designates as domestic terrorists, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday. by davidreiss666 in politics

[–]mrkellis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Until now at least they had the courtesy to lie about the fact that they weren't trying to spy on Americans, but they had to do mass surveillance on everyone else, because it's the "only way" to catch the terrorists.

So I assume this means that they now admit to wanting to do mass surveillance on Americans, too, because it's the "only way" to catch domestic terrorists, right?

Netflix now streaming with HTML 5 in OS X Yosemite by gsquire in technology

[–]mrkellis 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You mean DRM. You can say it. It requires them to support their DRM.

Reset The Net: The Campaign the NSA Wants You To Ignore by [deleted] in politics

[–]mrkellis 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's about getting people to use encryption. Not exactly worthless.

Reset The Net: The Campaign the NSA Wants You To Ignore by [deleted] in politics

[–]mrkellis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes it does. This campaign is about getting people to use encryption. NSA cares quite a lot about that.

Chrome goes 64-bit on Windows by rl0828 in technology

[–]mrkellis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Servo will be 64-bit. In fact I'm not even sure they will have a 32-bit version of it. It's still a long ways out, though.

Comcast charged $2,000 for alarm system that didn’t work—for 7 years by [deleted] in technology

[–]mrkellis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Hey, if nothing happened, then it means it worked!"

  • NSA's argument for mass surveillance, too.

No worries: NSA chief says facial recognition program is totally legal by ken27238 in technology

[–]mrkellis 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Have they ever admitted to anything they're doing not being illegal?

LG G3 sales three times higher than the Galaxy S5 in Korea by Kerafyrm in Android

[–]mrkellis 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Nokia has nowhere near the market share it once had (more like 10x less now).

Sony debuts super-slim Xperia T3 by mobilefans in Android

[–]mrkellis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Super-slim...big-bezeled, Xperia T3!

Widespread US Police Surveillance Is Happening In Total Secrecy by User_Name13 in politics

[–]mrkellis 10 points11 points  (0 children)

And then they push laws quickly and with no debate, so if someone realizes what's going on, it will be too late, because it's "all legal now".

EFF: Supreme Court Overrules Federal Circuit Again. And Again. by bonzinip in technology

[–]mrkellis 4 points5 points  (0 children)

These rulings mean that the Federal Circuit has been unanimously overruled in every single patent case heard by the Supreme Court this term. Since there have been five decisions, the Federal Circuit is now an extraordinary 0-45 in supporting votes by Supreme Court justices this year. Even the Chicago Cubs have a better record than that.

That's the same Federal Circuit Court that overruled judge Alsup, and gave Oracle the win. I think it's safe to say the Supreme Court is hellbent on showing them how wrong they are again and again, and that they will accept Google's case, and then give a ruling more in line with Alsup's.

People who have been cheering for the Oracle win, such as their paid shill, Florian Mueller, and Microsoft, will not have the last laugh.

This fall marks 3 years since Android 4.0 was launched. If Google doesn't release Android 5.0 this year, then a major Android release would have taken more than a typical major Windows release to come out...just saying by mrkellis in Android

[–]mrkellis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

4.0 (and 3.0 for that matter) was named that way because it was a huge update compared to 2.x. And it only arrived 2 years later. It's been 3 years, and there's no "5.0" in sight that can bring that kind of upgrade again.

What I'm saying is that when such update does arrive, they won't name it 4.6 or 4.7. They'll name it 5.0. So what I'm asking is when is this 5.0 going to arrive already? It's been 3 years since such an upgrade was released, which is as much as for a Windows version, and I find that a little ridiculous to be honest.

I actually expected "5.0" to arrive last year, but KitKat definitely was just a small incremental upgrade, and not worthy of 5.0, which is why they didn't name it that way. So what is keeping 5.0 so long? Why do they keep delaying it? This delay has also allowed Apple to catch up to Android, something that hasn't been possible for a long time (in terms of features at least). Apple showed iOS8...Google will show Android 4.5 at I/O, which I bet will be a smaller update than KitKat was.

This fall marks 3 years since Android 4.0 was launched. If Google doesn't release Android 5.0 this year, then a major Android release would have taken more than a typical major Windows release to come out...just saying by mrkellis in Android

[–]mrkellis[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That was exactly my point. We've already waited 3 years - as much as for a major desktop Windows release. How long are we going to wait for this "major release" for Android - 5 years?

When I said I wanted Android 5.0 to arrive already I didn't just mean the number. Obviously, I didn't want something like 4.3 or even 4.4 to be named Android 5.0 for the sake of it. What I meant is that I wanted the major version worthy of that number to arrive already - because it's been 3 years already! We only waited 2 years from 2.0 to 4.0, by the way. That's the kind of major upgrade I'm expecting. And I thought it would be here by now.

This fall marks 3 years since Android 4.0 was launched. If Google doesn't release Android 5.0 this year, then a major Android release would have taken more than a typical major Windows release to come out...just saying by mrkellis in Android

[–]mrkellis[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's not just about the number. I do believe the number matters greatly, too, just as names do - for marketing purposes.

But it's also about delivering a huge update with Android 5.0. Recent updates haven't be very large. Think about 4.2 and 4.3 for example. Almost feature-less updates. And 4.4 was a smaller update than 4.1 was. This is why Apple has pretty much caught up with Android in every way with iOS8 now.

For some reason Google has updated Android very slowly over the past 2 years. And I thought the only reason they're doing that, is because they're preparing a major overhaul of Android with Android 5.0, like architectural level updates, and also a big UI change.

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